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This gives new meaning to the term "The seats are empty".
Have you seen the attendance at this thing? It makes the sparsely populated Grand Slams appear overflowingly full by comparison.
You can very easily count the number of people in attendance at the Mixed Doubles World Championships. And it often appears to be about 10 people - give or take 3.

Mixed Doubles is said to be more popular overseas than it is in Canada. I guess that doesn't include Sweden - because the attendance - actually, the almost complete LACK of attendance - is outright embarrassing.

__________________"It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own... but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Watching gold metal game and cannot believe that there has been zero reference or acknowledgement of the bronze metal game on the next sheet. Can see score on occasion. That is the worst commenting omission Iâ€™ve ever seen in curling tv.

first: conrats to sven and michele on the gold. switzerland's 7th in 11 years. incredible dominance from switzerland.

congrats to the young russian team on a very unexpected silver. i sincerely hope they are clean..we've already seen one russian team get their medal taken away from the olympics this year.

congrats to laura and kirk on bronze. getting canada's 3rd medal here is a job well done

on topic, yeah the attendance has been depressing. lots of talk about how much traction mixed doubles is gaining but it's not been reflected in audience numbers. Hopefully it will start to soon. i mean..i know curling doesn't usually attract huge crowds but, come on, this was just sad.

TSN or someone in canada could have made a better effort to get this on actual TV as well. very disappointing that tsn decided to only broadcast the final and semi final. and im not even sure canada's bronze game was broadcast. i know they had planned to air the gold medal final but it might have bit them when canada didn't get there. i guess thats what happens when you assume canada will be in the final

Maybe they need to let Japan have a crack at hosting this event? This year's Japan Mixed Doubles Championships were sold out for all five days of the competition...albeit with only about 300 seats available, and three of the women's team Olympic bronze medalists also competing.

Alas, it looks like Norway gets the event next year, and the current curling fever in Japan will likely break by the time 2020 rolls around.

I think those promoting mixed doubles are hoping that the current 4 second average attention span of people (owing to technology) helps to attract them toward the rapidity of mixed doubles, as opposed to the slower, more strategic, more contemplative regular 4 on 4 curling.

__________________"It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own... but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson